A 'healthy body' looks and feels very different on each and every one of us. Sadly though, research conducted by Women's Health as part of our campaign, Project Body Love , found that three-quarters of British women don't feel confident in their own skin. The reality is, for most women, being naked is not a feel-good place to be. It's wanting to embrace the female form in all of its diverse glory that inspired Women's Health's very first Naked Issue back in , for which actress Zoe Saldana fronted the magazine's cover in the nude, with trainer Tracey Anderson and former reality star Millie Mackintosh going buff within the pages. September saw presenter and singer Rochelle Humes taking the cover, with professional climbers and football and rugby players also appearing in the magazine. To celebrate the stars of the Naked Issue, past and present, WH has collected a series of the images of the women who have bared all in the name of body confidence and female empowerment.
It wasn't the title " Naked Women" that caught our attention, though it is effective. It was the aesthetic of the photos -- glossy and real, glamorous and gnarly, sexy and campy, all at once. And if we're going to showcase a nude photography series, you better bet it's going to be by a strong female artist. The photo series comes courtesy of London-based artist Nadia Lee Cohen , who knows the power of a good nude. Lee's models, whether slurping down a Big Gulp or picking at a juicy roasted chicken, are pulp, kitschy, sultry, surreal and all kinds of weird. They expose their flesh yet don wigs and glasses, toying with the notion of baring all before the camera while remaining incognito. Reminiscent of artists like Alex Prager and Cindy Sherman, Lee injects the illusion of narrative into her sumptuous images -- transforming her models into mysterious strangers exposed yet disguised, perhaps even on the run.